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Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by sdoering »

ginko wrote: post #47
franze wrote: post #26

I just landed in BER 20 minutes ago and I am just amazed how bad the signage is The signs tiny and all in the same red/white color. The monitors tiny and sparse. The placement of the tickets for the trains placed where you do not pass. And just good luck if you go down the wrong stairway and then reached the nowhere, without any visible signs. They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput.

>They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput. Continuous integration?

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Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by wuyishan »

ginko wrote: post #47
franze wrote: post #26

I just landed in BER 20 minutes ago and I am just amazed how bad the signage is The signs tiny and all in the same red/white color. The monitors tiny and sparse. The placement of the tickets for the trains placed where you do not pass. And just good luck if you go down the wrong stairway and then reached the nowhere, without any visible signs. They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput.

>They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput. Continuous integration?

Corporate Identity

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by mytailorisrich »

martinald wrote: post #43
GekkePrutser wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Schiphol same thing... People now have to wait for hours, hundreds of flights are cancelled daily and they still refuse to pay a reasonable wage. Of course the CEO blames everything on others and allots himself a big bonus as usual. And society bailed out these guys in a big way during Corona... Next time we should just let them fall.

Not really in the UK. There wasn't any special package for airports/airlines, just the standard furlough scheme. Plus the international travel restrictions were absolutely ridiculous and literally changing day to day (for absolutely no benefit, as nowhere in Europe was running zero covid, so it literally may have saved a few days of virus growth).

In the UK the standard furlough scheme was as generous as it gets.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by dang »

AlexAffe wrote: post #24

Can we take a moment and ponder over why the title is censored? Why are we all okay with this? Who are we protecting, who are we trying to deceive? Why is it fine with everyone, that a youtube SNL skit is bleeped out? What THE FUCK has gotten into us? Either use the word, or don't use it. Show the video, or don't show it. We should all stand tall for our (fought for) rights, this isn't the fucking 60s.

Profanity isn't an issue on HN. We tend to override Bowdlerisms and did that with the title above a while ago.

Your comment, though, falls in the category of what this site guideline asks people not to post:

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—things like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The point isn't that these things aren't annoying, it's that changing the topic of the thread to one of these annoyances is a big step down in discussion quality, so we should all try to resist.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by Tainnor »

chrisseaton wrote: post #16
odiroot wrote: post #7

Best way: close the actual city airport that was functioning like a well-oiled machine and was loved by the city population. Even better, do it against their explicit wishes with a shady decision that reeks of corruption. Any follow-up to that will always end up being "fucked up".

> functioning like a well-oiled machine and was loved by the city population You can’t possibly mean Tegel? I’ve never met anyone who has used Tegel who didn’t think it was clearly the worst airport in the world. I used to literally avoid doing any business in Berlin because Tegel was so painful.

People who grew up in Berlin tend to have become enamored a bit with Tegel. I moved to Berlin later and always hated Tegel (though never as much as I've hated Schönefeld which was a kafkaesque nightmare).

It's true that Tegel was conveniently located and that boarding could be quite fast in terminal A. But if your flight got delayed after you were through security you would be stuck in a crammed space and your only opportunities for food would be overpriced Pretzels. And the whole thing was just outrageously ugly.

Re: How to fuck up an airport

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Post by Rebelgecko »

ginko wrote: post #47
franze wrote: post #26

I just landed in BER 20 minutes ago and I am just amazed how bad the signage is The signs tiny and all in the same red/white color. The monitors tiny and sparse. The placement of the tickets for the trains placed where you do not pass. And just good luck if you go down the wrong stairway and then reached the nowhere, without any visible signs. They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput.

>They cared about the CI way more than about fast passenger throughput. Continuous integration?

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